Gavin's First Hair Cut

It's official, we got Gavin's hair cut! Before I get to that, there are some pictures I've taken over the past month. They're pretty good because you can see how long his hair had got and how badly he needed to get it cut....or better said, how badly WE needed to get it cut for him.

Here is our wonderful son watching "A special witness of Christ." He always goes right up to the screen when it starts and just stares. Gavin looks at him for about 30 seconds while Hinckley talks, then goes about playing again. It's very cute and touching for me to watch. Every time, the same thing.

Ok this picture is blurry but I think it's so cute. Rocking out on Grandma Hill's play-horse. He thought it was fun, until he fell off.


Look at that body!! He was playing with his cousin Ashley's beads. I love those chubby little legs.


Getting a closer look before he puts them on. He really likes these, again, for about 30 seconds. He thinks they are the coolest thing ever, puts them on, and then it's off to something else.




Here he is trying to put them on. Sometimes he misses and puts them behind his head.

Okay, here is one of the pictures I took of Gavin eating. I put his hair up because it kept getting in his eyes. We were letting him eat lunch in the front doorway because it was nice out and dad was doing yard work. Yes, it was really long. Doesn't he look funny though?! Matt and I were cracking-up. This wasn't the first or last time we did this. :)

W egive Gavin his baths at night. Afterwards, I always try to comb it down and over. So you can see, it doesn't look so out of control when its all in place. The funny thing is Gavin is my son, Gavin is Matt's son, so that means he loves to move around! When he plays, it doesn't stay in place for long. I love his eyes here!

The day before Fathers day, Matt and I took him to Sports Shear for his first hair cut. Here they are waiting for our hair dresser-person to be ready. Matt calls this Gavin's hippie-hair picture.

In the chair, I'm desperately trying to express to this woman that this is his first time and I really DO NOT want to go super short. Gavin was just hangin out, do his thing which is looking cute and sticking his belly out. I love his leg in this picture too.

And so it begun.

The bangs go first. We thought he looked like" Dumb and Dumber" at first, which was making me nervous.

As she went on, Gavin was still doing really, really well. No crying, no screaming, no trying to get away, but he was starting to get uneasy every time she brought the scissors by his ears. He didn't like that!

This was towards the end when he was getting restless and wanted to be done with the whole thing. He never cried, but he got close here. I kept talking to him, and he would look over at me with these eyes that said,

"I trust you so I won't freak-out, But that doesn't mean I have to like it. This better end real soon mom!"

Getting shorter.

Checking out all the sides.

The happy end result. Shorter and much better. Good-Bye mullet. He loved his sucker, and I really mean LOVED! I was so proud of him, he did so well. The woman who cut his hair said he did amazing for his first time.

His royal Hansomeness. I'm glad we got it cut and it does look a lot better. I'm also so glad he held-up and didn't freak out. One of the other nice things they did was give us a lock of his hair with a big certificate that said First Hair Cut, dates, time, place, people, and some other little details. It's going straight to his Baby book.

Happy Fathers Day Matt. You get a very hansom son, with a dashing new hair cut, who also loves you, and not to mention, a wife who adores you.